Frontier models ship with the controls to run them longer
Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2 and Instant Checkout, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DEPLOYif you build coding agents
WHAT SHIPPEDClaude Sonnet 4.5 is available everywhere today at $3/$15 per million tokens, the same price as Claude Sonnet 4. It leads OSWorld at 61.4% and maintains focus for more than 30 hours on complex tasks.
THE CATCHThe Claude Agent SDK ships the same infrastructure that powers Claude Code, including memory, permissions, and subagent coordination, so the model's long task focus is paired with the tooling to delegate work.
IF YOU RUNa coding team that wants to hand Claude Code broad refactors or feature exploration and rewind instantly when a change goes wrong
SOURCEAnthropic, Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
OpenAI
Sora 2
WATCHif you build consumer video apps
WHAT SHIPPEDSora 2 is a video and audio generation model with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, more accurate physics, and a characters feature that inserts a recorded person into generated scenes. The Sora iOS app is available to download now with initial rollout in the U.S. and Canada.
THE CATCHThe app is invite based and Sora 2 is initially free with compute limits, while ChatGPT Pro users get an experimental higher quality Sora 2 Pro model on sora.com.
IF YOU RUNa team that needs to test video generation before API access opens, since Sora 2 is not yet in the API
SOURCEOpenAI, Sora 2 is here
OpenAI
Instant Checkout
DEPLOYif you sell on Shopify or Etsy
WHAT SHIPPEDU.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from U.S. Etsy sellers in chat, with over a million Shopify merchants like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori coming soon. The Agentic Commerce Protocol is open sourced today.
THE CATCHMerchants stay the merchant of record and handle fulfillment and support with their existing systems, while ChatGPT passes order details and charges a small fee on completed purchases.
IF YOU RUNa Shopify store that wants to reach ChatGPT's 700 million weekly users without changing your payment processor
SOURCEOpenAI, Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
The Deploy Log
Models and APIs
| WATCHif you handle likeness consent Sora 2 System Card. Sora 2 is available via sora.com, in a new standalone iOS Sora app, and in the future it will be available via the API, with initial access rolling out through limited invitations. OpenAI |
| WATCHif you pick embedding models RTEB benchmark. RTEB is a new retrieval embedding benchmark in beta that combines open and private datasets across 20 languages and domains like law, healthcare, code, and finance, using NDCG@10 as the default metric. Hugging Face |
| WATCHif you run local agents on AI PCs Qwen3-8B agent speedup. OpenVINO.GenAI accelerates Qwen3-8B generation by about 1.4x on Intel Core Ultra using speculative decoding with a depth-pruned Qwen3-0.6B draft model. Hugging Face |
Tools and products
| DEPLOYif you deploy Python on Vercel uv Python builds. Vercel now uses uv as the default package manager for all Python builds, making builds 30-65% faster and adding support for uv.lock and pyproject.toml dependency files. Vercel |
Left out
- Launching Sora responsibly: The page text is a safety overview that duplicates the Sora 2 lead and system card without a distinct deployment number.
- Claude Code autonomy: a figure in the draft could not be found on the publisher's own page
- CDN cache tags: a figure in the draft could not be found on the publisher's own page
- v0 build speed: a figure in the draft could not be found on the publisher's own page
- dots.ocr on-device: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- VibeGame engine: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Bot verification data: it did not carry a number that moved
- Fluid compute config: it did not carry a number that moved
- Static IPs: it did not carry a number that moved
- Stripe Marketplace beta: it did not carry a number that moved
- Parental controls: it did not carry a number that moved
The pattern
Claude Sonnet 4.5 holds focus for more than 30 hours at $3/$15 per million tokens, and the Claude Agent SDK ships the same memory, permissions, and subagent coordination as Claude Code. Sora 2 ships as an invite based iOS app with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, initially free with compute limits, while ChatGPT Pro users get Sora 2 Pro on sora.com. Instant Checkout opens ChatGPT to over a million Shopify merchants like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori, with the Agentic Commerce Protocol open sourced today. Vercel makes uv the default for Python builds, cutting build time 30-65%. OpenVINO.GenAI accelerates Qwen3-8B by about 1.4x on Intel Core Ultra with a depth-pruned Qwen3-0.6B draft model. RTEB enters beta across 20 languages and domains like law, healthcare, code, and finance using NDCG@10.
The controls to run frontier models longer are shipping in the same release cycle as the models themselves. Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads OSWorld at 61.4% and maintains focus for more than 30 hours, and the Claude Agent SDK pairs that with delegation and rewind. Sora 2 is not yet in the API, but the Sora iOS app is available to download now with initial rollout in the U.S. and Canada, and ChatGPT Pro users get an experimental higher quality Sora 2 Pro model. Instant Checkout reaches ChatGPT's 700 million weekly users while merchants stay the merchant of record and handle fulfillment and support with their existing systems. Vercel adds support for uv.lock and pyproject.toml dependency files. RTEB combines open and private datasets. OpenVINO.GenAI uses speculative decoding.